My Great Grandfather was with the Michigan Brigade with Custer during the civil war and after the war deserted when they wouldn’t let him go home after the war was over. He was ordered after the souths surrender to western frontier’s district of the plains to the indian wars .......He was from Bath County Kentucky.
Said F’em an went back home to farming in Sharpsburg Kentucky was my grandfathers version of the story.....he said great grandfather was at Gettysburg as well as other battles that I can’t recall..... Beverly Gransville Perry was my Great Grandfathers name ......
That’s pretty great.
Good thing he broke away from Custer when he did.
Got to be a rough ride for the Seventh Cav.
Sounds like not sticking with Custer was a wise decision.
My GGrandpa lived in Florida but only a few hundred yards from the Alabama line. He and his Brothers enlisted at Elba, Alabama. His name was Martin Abel McDuffie. Some more of Mother’s family served with Laird’s Rangers but I know nothing of them.
My paternal ancestors enlisted in the First and Sixth Florida. They were organized in Pensacola and trained at Chattahoochee which is now the site of the state mental hospital.